Quotes About Function

Words don't change their shape, they change their meaning, their function...They don't have a meaning of their own any more, they refer to other words that you don't know, that you've never read or heard...you've never seen their shape, but you feel...you suspect...they correspond to...an empty space inside you...or in the universe...

El alcohol suplió la función que no tuvo Dios, también tuvo la de matarme, la de matar.

The term crucifixion means the energy pattern of fear. It represents the limited, negative thinking of the ego, and how it always seeks to limit, contradict or invalidate love. The term resurrection means the energy pattern of love, which transcends fear by replacing it. A miracle worker's function is forgiveness. In performing our function, we become channels for resurrection.

But a spiritual fever, like a physical fever, actually has a productive function: it burns up disease. Think of your pain as a feverish burning up of fear. As you heal physically, extreme fever can lead to delirium. And as you heal spiritually, your fever can lead to delirium as well—a quiet delirium of the soul. But this too shall pass.

He teaches us to see love as our only function.

because only love is real. It is our function to see through the illusion of guilt, to the innocence that lies beyond. "To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All

When we do not recognize our cosmic function, our own hearts break, and does the heart of the world.

When we do not recognize our cosmic function, our own hearts break, and so does the heart of the world.

As we seek to build kingdom churches, our priestly functions must be in proper order—the first commandment must take first place, and the second commandment must be second.

The government is merely a servant?merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

Form follows function in the created world, so far as I know, and the creature that functions, however bizarre, survives to perpetuate its form.

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Soon after her beloved young brother was killed, she asked me, "What is the purpose of grief? Does it serve any biological function?

For the human body was a bizarre piece of improvisation, full of organs that had been diverted from one function to another, not always very successfully—and even containing discarded items, like the appendix, that were now worse than useless.

There was only one Eye, though it had many projections into spacetime. And it had many functions.

Crime is a commonplace, existence is a commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth.

Mi dica, dottore, a cosa serve avere determinate facoltà se non c'è modo di impiegarle? Il delitto è banale, la vita è banale, e soltanto le qualità banali hanno ormai una funzione sulla terra.

Almost all of Mr. Cobb's function—aside from lighting cigarettes for me, and pausing respectfully when my husband spoke—seemed to consist of taking objects which actually existed in almost square feet, and translating them into cubic feet—rugs had to be rolled, books had to be boxed, pictures had to be put into packing cases.

Mais de toute façon, engendrer, allaiter ne sont pas des activités, ce sont des fonctions naturelles; aucun projet n'y est engagé; c'est pourquoi la femme n'y trouve pas le motif d'une affirmation hautaine de son existence; elle subit passivement son destin biologique.

What is the use of having powers, Doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them? Crime is commonplace, existence is commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth.

I've never felt so bereft and panicky. What do I do without my phone? How do I function? My hand keeps automatically reaching for my phone in its usual place in my pocket. Every instinct in me wants to text someone, 'OMG, I've lost my phone!' but how can do that without a bloody phone?

The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.

One doesn't expect justice from life ... it's the function of human beings to put it there.

For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.